Top 30 Wendi McLendon-Covey Quotes

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when you have shoulders like that.

‘M Train’ will take you in and out of dreamscapes and reality and remembrances with prose so spare and matter-of-fact that it delivers a much bigger emotional punch. Patti Smith doesn’t need to embellish; she just tells her stories… and her stories are incredible.

The thing about acting is everybody thinks you make a ton of money. And the money is good when you’re working. But you can go a long time between jobs.

I can’t stand having a messy purse, and it makes me anxious to watch other people dig through their messy purses (especially if it’s an expensive designer bag! Don’t treat your Chanel like a trash can).

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, ’cause you know they’re never going anywhere, and at some point, they’re going to forgive you.

Oh my gosh, if I could be on ’30 Rock’, my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

Back when I was growing up, it was like, ‘You’re too young to know what you want. We’re telling you what you want. It doesn’t matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.’

I don’t take a lot of vacations.

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

I never wanted to be one of those desperate actors, just waiting for their next gig, who might have to take something that they didn’t want to do to pay the rent.

My skin is super sensitive, so an oil-based cleanser is just perfect, rather than some detergent thing that strips it.

On my keychain, I have a citrine crystal in a tiny cage. It’s for protection and good vibes.

When I finally got a manager and a publicist and blah, blah, blah, sometimes they do things that you don’t authorize or maybe tell you information that’s incorrect, but you go around repeating it only to find out later that it’s not true, and it’s very embarrassing.

You can’t beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

I was a theatrical kid, but my parents were overprotective. When I expressed interest in show business, they shut it down.

I’m a big fan of David Sedaris; I love all his books and have them all on audio and e-reader, in addition to hard copies.

If I improvise at all on ‘The Goldbergs,’ it’s with the physical stuff.

I love the healing power of crystals.

I have terrible chemical allergies, and I’m constantly battling unsightly reactions.

What’s the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you’re not where you want to be in life.

You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who’s interesting, or the kind of actress who’s meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.

I don’t want to outlive my money.

Now, I love playing moms who can’t hide their paranoia.

My skin is so hypersensitive that I have to cleanse it with oils and then back it up with even more oil. I really am just putting on oil all the time.

I’ve got a bunch of books… I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world’s most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He’s a good guy.

I’m a big fan of Amy Sedaris, and one of her decorating mainstays is to put googly eyes on everything.

I plan on working until I’m 105.